Community structure of zooplankton in the Lembeh Strait, Bitung, and Wori Beach, Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

• Published in: Acta oceanologica Sinica Vol. 37; no. 12; pp. 28 - 34
• Main Authors: Thoha, Hikmah, Fitriya, Nurul, Sianturi, Oksto Ridho, Wang, Yanguo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Beijing The Chinese Society of Oceanography 01.12.2018; Springer Nature B.V; Research Center for Oceanography,Indonesian Institute of Sciences,Jakarta 14430,Indonesia%Third Institution of Oceanography,Ministry of Natural Resources,Xiamen 361005,China
• Subjects: Abundance; Aquatic crustaceans; Beaches; Biodiversity; Climatology; Communities; Community structure; Composition; Distribution; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Ecology; Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Environmental Chemistry; Freshwater crustaceans; Geographical distribution; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Oceanography; Plankton; Preservatives; Sampling; Spatial distribution; Stations; Surface water; Water depth; Zooplankton; Sulawesi; Lembeh Strait; Indonesia; Wori Beach; calanoida; zooplankton; copepoda; Lembeh Strait
• ISSN: 0253-505X; 1869-1099
• DOI: 10.1007/s13131-018-1285-2

The community structure of zooplankton has been conducted in the Lembeh Strait in Bitung and Wori Beach in Manado, North Sulawesi in October 2015. Sampling of this research was conducted in 22 sampling sites along the strait. Zooplankton samples were collected from 22 stations, by NORPAC 300 μm net that was vertically hauled from maximum 10 m depth up to the surface water. The samples were poured into the bottle with formalin of 4% as preservative. The results showed that there were 43 taxa of zooplankton. The abundance of zooplankton was between 21.216–4 193.776 ind./m 3 . The dominant taxa were copepod, especially Calanoida. The composition of zooplankton was relatively similar in all stations. We showed the abundance, dominance, composition and distribution of zooplankton at this research. More extensive studies concerning zooplankton is required to understand zooplankton biodiversity as a whole especially on the geographical and spatial distribution to describe population and community dynamic in the Lembeh Strait and Wori Beach.